# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-11527"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-14T11:40:45.634Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-19T20:31:36.704Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:50.502Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-11527"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-11527.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-11527"
title: "Config::IniFiles versions before 3.001000 for Perl allow OS command injection and file overwrite via a 2-arg open() of the -file argument in _make_filehandle"
summary: "Config::IniFiles versions before 3.001000 for Perl allow OS command injection and file overwrite via a 2-arg open() of the -file argument in _make_filehandle.\n\nConfig::IniFiles::_make_filehandle opens a filename argument with Perl's 2-arg open(), so a filename that begins or ends with a pipe (\"| cmd\", \"cmd |\") or begins with a redirect (\"\u003e path\", \"\u003e\u003e path\") is run as a command or redirect rather than opened as a file. The helper is the open path behind the documented -file argument: new(-file =\u003e $thing) reaches it through ReadConfig. An in-memory scalar reference (-file =\u003e \\$text) does not open a path and is unaffected.\n\nAny caller that forwards untrusted input to the -file argument can run an arbitrary command or truncate a file under the process UID."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"3.001000"}],"vendor":"SHLOMIF","product":"Config::IniFiles","packageName":"Config-IniFiles","collectionURL":"https://cpan.org/modules","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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